Air Force 19Air Force Reserve 2Air National Guard 2Army 31Army Reserve 11Army National Guard 29Marine Corps 7Marine Corps Reserve 5Navy 14Navy Reserve 5The numbers are slightly worse than the first quarter of 2016. How do they explain this?Will they finally end "resilience training" and give these men and women what they need to know before they go and what they need to do when they come back?For all of the "awareness raisers" running around the country, do you have an answer as to why what you are doing has not worked?By the way, when you talk about a number from research you didn't bother to read, you are not even trying to talk about any of these lives.Does anyone feel it is necessary to actually explain anything to anyone?

They want help, you give them slogans.They valued the lives of others so much so they were willing to die for their sake. They could not find what was valuable enough inside of them to fight for themselves. Are you ok with that?They survived the worst that combat could do. They could not survive surviving it back home? Are you ok with that too?We've researched PTSD to death for decades and ended up creating a bigger threat to their lives when they were supposed to be safe. Are you ok with that?

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